A Quest For Fitness, One Step At A Time: It just keeps getting better and better.

Friday, July 10, 2009

It just keeps getting better and better.

In other news, my best friends dad died last night... heart attack. I'll be gone for the weekend. What a shit week.

On the bright side, its been a great week for exercise and food. I'm up to running two miles every night, except for tonight for the obvious reasons. I'll get back to it tomorrow and Sunday whenever I find the time. Weighed myself after work today, I'm 203.5 so not bad, gonna push for 4 pounds by Sunday, and I want to be under 200 by Wednesday of next week. That will be my picture post day, so hopefully there will be a good improvement to see. It's starting to seem like 180 by the end of September might be just out of my reach, especially with the weight training and the muscle gain, but who knows? If I do enough cardio, I just might make it.

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South Beach Steve said...: 180 is within your reach. Not to say it won't take a lot of dedication, but you knew that already. BTW, sorry to hear about your best friend's dad. That sort of thing always reminds me why I am doing this.; July 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM

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Goals

Goals are a means to an end, when in reality there is no end to this. Physical fitness is a quest for perfection, and as such, it is an endless, brutal, destructive, painful war that will never be won. I have made lists, updated triumphs, but have come to realize it is a meaningless sense of gratification to acknowledge how much closer you have come to perfection. Indeed, I strive for that perfection, I want to look in the mirror and see the years of suffering, blood, sweat, and pain... all to achieve the satisfaction of knowing it will never end, and that I can always be better. One day at a time, I will become better. I will fight every small battle as if it were the last battle, and through that, my achievements will manifest themselves both mentally and physically, and you can take from that what you like.

The Reason

Well, I thought about making this a post all in itself, but I figured this would be a much more convenient way of documenting my own story, and it allows me to go back and edit if I see it necessary in the future.

I'm a twenty year old college student, currently attending THE Ohio State University. For most of my life I have been an overweight, unfit person. In High School, I played many different sports but for some reason my body didn't really respond to all the exercise/activity. Honestly, I've always been a big guy, I started growing at eleven. Even now, standing at 6'5 and 240 pounds, I don't show much sign of stopping. I don't really mind how tall I get as long as I don't go above 7 foot, but these past few years have been pretty rough on the ol' midsection. College is a DANGEROUS place when it comes to weight gain, and needless to say my body really flew off the deep end. I was able to salvage my Freshman year in the last winter, going from 220 to 190 in three months, but by the middle of Sophomore year, I was right back to where I started. About mid-February my Junior year, I stepped on the scale and I was completely shocked. 240 pounds. The most I have EVER weighed. I knew it was time to change things. One of those biggest changes had to be my eating habits, and just as importantly, my mental toughness. I went into my pantry, threw away almost everything I had, and spent the next two hours looking at the back of packages in the grocery store. On top of everything, I was given a weight bench the previous December, so I decided to dust it off, set it up, and get to work. Even though I have just started, I feel committed and to my goals in a way that I have never felt before.

I want a lifestyle change. I want to feel healthier, be healthier, and help others to achieve their own personal fitness goals with my successes. Besides the public accountability, my goal for this blog is to provide a resource for anyone who is looking to take the first step into a healthier life both physically and mentally.

I will add more to this later, but for now, I hope this give you a rough picture concerning my history, and the reason why I am here now. Good luck everyone, and thanks for reading!

A Quest For Fitness, One Step At A Time

Friday, July 10, 2009

It just keeps getting better and better.

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